Kenny Rivero: Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers
18 March - 13 June 2021
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Downtown Brattleboro, Vermont
CLICK HERE TO VIEW PRESS RELEASE
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS INTERACTIVE, VIRTUAL WALK-THROUGH
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS DROPBOX FOLDER OF HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES
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The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) is pleased to present the first museum solo show of New York-based visual artist and musician Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; MFA Yale, 2012). The works on view feature heavily personal narrative drawings atop paper-based memorabilia that Rivero intercepted from the trash, mostly while working as a doorman for eight years in a luxury, prewar residential building he describes as “epitomizing the wealthy subculture of ‘Old New York.’”
Narratively, explains Rivero, “the works in this body of drawings point directly to death, violence, fear, faith, spirituality, war, and magic. The setting is an abstracted landscape informed by the people, architecture, culture and aesthetics of Washington Heights in New York (more broadly, the culture of uptown and the Bronx) and the Dominican Republic (more specifically, Santiago and the Cibáo). The work is autobiographical, and I’m invested in building a knowledge of self as it relates to a variety of areas.”
Building upon Rivero’s institutional representation in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, BMAC is pleased to bring Rivero’s first museum solo show to international audiences by way of an interactive, high-resolution walk-through interface hosted on the Museum’s website.
More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view, as well as a selection of studio shots, is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Image reuse must be with credit to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and Charles Moffett, unless otherwise noted in the file title.
